≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Drama, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Drama
Director: John Woo
Year: 1989
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Just Heroes plays like a dress rehearsal for John Woo’s bullet ballet melodramas like A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled. The elegant camera movements, slow motion, balletic gun-fu, heroic bloodshed, and male bonding are certainly all in evidence. Too bad […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Fantasy, Girls with Guns, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Fantasy/ Girls With Guns/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Chi Li Tang
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Bury Me High is nothing if not ambitious. What else do you call an adventure story about Feng Shui that incorporates a cast of thousands, military ordinance, voluminous explosions, kickass martial arts, and nutty stunts?
The plot […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Martial Arts/ Action
Director: Lau Kar-Wing
Year: 1990
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
What can I say about Skinny Tiger and Fatty Dragon? Unless you added in a plethora of crazy Hong Kong style stuntwork, it’s about as good as it could be, given the premise and style of the piece.
Baldy Mak (Karl Maka) and […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Drama, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Suspense/ Drama
Director: Michael Mak
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Underground Express AKA Long Arm of the Law IV isn’t quite as great as it’s predecessors, but you shouldn’t hold that against it.
One advantage the film has is a rich premise. In the aftermath of the Tienanmen Square massacre, Chinese pro-democracy […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Martial Arts
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1987
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
In Eastern Condors, director Sammo Hung seems to have set out to make an American style war picture, along the lines of The Dirty Dozen. It’s not such a good fit for his talents.
The early sequences, which focus on the convicts who […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Drama, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Drama
Director: David Lam
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
All history lessons should be as fun as Powerful Four. It seems that, during the 50s and 60s, the Hong Kong Police Department was totally corrupt. Not only did cops take bribes to look the other way, they actively participated in […]
≡ Category: Action, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Godfrey Ho
Year: 1993
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Angel The Kickboxer is stultifyingly boring, to the point of being unwatchable. Reader, I confess that 40 minutes into this snooze fest, I skimmed through the rest of the DVD, only pausing for the fight sequences.
Don’t blaim the actors. Don’t even blaim the […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Martial Arts
Director: Joe Cheung
Year: 1986
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Rosa starts and ends strong, but the middle is kind of flabby.
The action revolves around the title character, who was once the mistress of a mobster who has taken incriminating photos of the financial books of a triad kingpin and is trying […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Dennis Law
Year: 2006
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I was initially less than enthusiastic about checking out Fatal Contact because it’s yet another movie about underground fighting, obviously designed to showcase star Jacky Wu Jing’s martial arts abilities. That seemed to me a failure of imagination on the part […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Jingle Ma
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Making Mulan work should have been a no-brainer. You have a game star with Vicky Zhao (although she couldn’t possibly be mistaken for a man, no matter what she was wearing), an ace action director in Stephen Tung Wai, and what seems like […]